“Haimor showed a gracious, idiomatic touch with fine transparency and dynamics surely marked. The slow introduction to the opening movement had ample breadth and weight, dovetailing neatly into a vital, amiable Allegro. In the vivacious finale Haimor and the players delivered Haydn’s music with a winning blend of musical wit and infectious energy.”
Chicago Classical Review
Praised for his “inspiring conducting”, his “sensitivity and his ability to create a defined, transparent sound” and his “sense of drama and his particular gift for strong, emphatic finishes,” Haimor’s international career has seen him leading distinguished orchestras throughout the US and around the world, including the National Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, as well as his upcoming debut with the Calgary Philharmonic.
This season, Fawzi Haimor returns for his second year as Music Director of the Marin Symphony, as the orchestra returns to its home at the Marin Center Veterans Memorial Auditorium to celebrate its 75-year history. Over the course of the 2026–27 season, Haimor continues to lead a compelling range of repertoire from masterworks by Mahler, Berlioz, Bernstein, and Gershwin to music by living composers including John Williams, Kareem Roustom, Gabriela Ortiz, and Reza Vali, as well as works by the long-underrecognized Florence Price, reflecting his deep commitment to both tradition and innovation.
Upcoming reinvitations include the Chineke! Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall in a program featuring works by Valerie Coleman, and the London premiere of Laura and Sarah Ayoub’s Arabic Symphony; the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
During the 2023–24 season, Haimor made his third tour appearance with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, to critical acclaim, collaborating with composer John Psathas, in presenting concerts of remembrance, hope, and unity on the fifth anniversary of the harrowing Christchurch Mosque attacks. That season included appearances at the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz with soloist Nils Mönkemeyer, and a recording of Reza Vali’s The Being of Love with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen for Naxos.
Haimor’s extensive credits include conducting acclaimed performances of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Kaiserslautern, Orquesta Sinfónica do Porto da Música, Oulu Sinfonia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Odense Symphony, Kyoto Symphony, and the Qatar Philharmonic among others. On tour with the New Zealand Symphony, Auckland’s Sunday Star-Times praised him for drawing “a stunning performance from the orchestra.”
North American audiences have also seen Haimor on the podium conducting Utah Symphony, Grant Park Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Virginia Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, and the Louisiana Philharmonic. Of his concerts conducting The Florida Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Firebird, The Tampa Bay Times wrote: “Haimor’s precise direction kept all the jagged pieces together…and by the end [of the performance] you feel as if you’ve just experienced a miracle.”
Of his conducting with the WPR, Südwestpresse writes: “Anyone who wants to can stream it all, download it or do anything else. But let’s be honest: they are just a substitute. It is still the live experience that counts. Therefore – and because Fawzi Haimor is a charismatic conductor at the podium – people are still pouring into symphony concerts.”
With a repertoire that includes a focus on works of the late German Romantic period and by 19th and 20th century Russian and American composers, Haimor is also a committed advocate of contemporary music, performing premieres and contemporary works by composers Mason Bates, Joshua Cerdenia, and Kareem Roustom.
From 2017 – 2020, Haimor was Music Director of Germany’s Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, conducting the WPR in their home at the Stadthalle Reutlingen, as well as on their tours throughout Germany and Europe. During his tenure with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Haimor recorded three albums for CPO Records which included Orchestral Works of George Antheil, the Piano Concertos of Eduard Franck with Georg Michael Grau, and Furtwängler’s Symphony No.1 which received critical acclaim. Additionally, during his second collaboration with the orchestra, Haimor and London based Chineke! recorded works by Coleridge-Taylor on the Decca label.
